Since I'm waiting for parts, I decided to clean up the garage and take some parts down to my basement. That was when I caught a quick look at the OE F-body oil pan I bought Dan Jost. Well looky there! I don't need to buy one. It's too bad that the nicely welded -10 bung is on the wrong side. Not only can I not use it, but I'll probably have to cut it off and weld it closed. My exhaust runs pretty tight to that side. Whatever, it's better than spending $60 on ebay and still needing to weld a bung to it.
I'm glad he didn't, but I'm pretty shocked that he didn't weld the oil lever sensor hole shut or just leave the sensor in its place. This goofy gooped up and paper gasketed plug must have leaked really bad. Even a soft sealing washer probably would have worked okay.
Then there's the topic at hand. It's one that makes me wonder if it caused Jost's engine failure instead of Intense's engine building. Either way, I'm trying to play it safe, and I certainly don't want big nasty paint flakes clogging my oil passages or blocking the pick-up screen. I don't have pictures from before I started wire wheeling, but almost all of this paint on the bottom came up in a several brittle but large sheets.
If I work at it with my finger nail I can get more to come off which doesn't give me solid feelings about using the pan at all. What would you do? Remove all the paint inside the pan? Where would you stop? I've never had this issue before, but 3800s are also the only engine I know to have the inside of their oil pans coated like this! Weird.
I'm glad he didn't, but I'm pretty shocked that he didn't weld the oil lever sensor hole shut or just leave the sensor in its place. This goofy gooped up and paper gasketed plug must have leaked really bad. Even a soft sealing washer probably would have worked okay.
Then there's the topic at hand. It's one that makes me wonder if it caused Jost's engine failure instead of Intense's engine building. Either way, I'm trying to play it safe, and I certainly don't want big nasty paint flakes clogging my oil passages or blocking the pick-up screen. I don't have pictures from before I started wire wheeling, but almost all of this paint on the bottom came up in a several brittle but large sheets.
If I work at it with my finger nail I can get more to come off which doesn't give me solid feelings about using the pan at all. What would you do? Remove all the paint inside the pan? Where would you stop? I've never had this issue before, but 3800s are also the only engine I know to have the inside of their oil pans coated like this! Weird.
